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One in 35 potential Afghan Army members is rejected because authorities fear that they are joining to kill their foreign mentors.

As Nato and Afghan officials scramble to find solutions to the rise in so-called green-on-blue attacks that have killed 45 foreign troops this year, Afghan authorities said yesterday that hundreds of recruits had been arrested or expelled because of insurgent leanings.

General Zahir Azimi, the Defence Ministry spokesman, called the rise a “matter of great concern”. He declined to provide more details. It is understood that almost all of them were caught during the recruitment process.